Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-urban Mexico
Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-urban Mexico

Author: Dorte Verner

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 43

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The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non-farm income shares increase with overall consumption levels and, also, with time. Rural-dwellers in lower quintiles of the consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author's findings reveal that education is key to earning higher wages, and that workers in more dispersed rural areas earn less than their peers in semi-urban rural areas (localities with less than 15,000 inhabitants). The rural non-farm sector is heterogeneous and includes a great variety of activities and productivity levels across non-farm jobs. Moreover it can reduce poverty in a couple of distinct but qualitatively important ways in rural Mexico. The analysis of non-farm employment in rural Mexico suggests that the two key determinants of access to employment and productivity in non-farm activities are education and location.

Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico
Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico

Author: Dorte Verner

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages:

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The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non-farm income shares increase with overall consumption levels and, also, with time. Rural-dwellers in lower quintiles of the consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author's findings reveal that education is key to earning higher wages, and that workers in more dispersed rural areas earn less than their peers in semi-urban rural areas (localities with less than 15,000 inhabitants). The rural non-farm sector is heterogeneous and includes a great variety of activities and productivity levels across non-farm jobs. Moreover it can reduce poverty in a couple of distinct but qualitatively important ways in rural Mexico. The analysis of non-farm employment in rural Mexico suggests that the two key determinants of access to employment and productivity in non-farm activities are education and location.

Migration Magnet
Migration Magnet

Author: Maren M. Michaelsen

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 37

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This study estimates separate selectivity bias corrected wage equations for formal and informal workers in rural and urban Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS). We control for different potential selection patterns using Probit and Multinominal logit models in the first step in which health, personality traits and family characteristics serve as exclusion restrictions for working per se and working in the formal sector. Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions show that rural-urban wage inequality in the formal and informal sector is determined by differences in observable human capital. In the informal sector, the wage differential is mainly explained by differences in returns to experience. Furthermore, we analyse rural-to-urban migrants' labour market performance. The findings suggest that rural-to-urban migration will continue and the informal sector will further increase.

Poverty in Rural and Semi-urban Mexico During 1992-2002
Poverty in Rural and Semi-urban Mexico During 1992-2002

Author: Dorte Verner

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 48

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However, the incidence of extreme rural poverty has declined since 1996 but at a slower pace than the decline in urban poverty. Hence, the rural-urban poverty gap increased in recent years and in some places extreme poverty is at least four times higher in rural than urban areas. Moreover, not only is the income gap in urban areas increasing, but also the gap between richer and poorer segments of the population in the rural areas is growing. Finally, the gap between rich and poor regions is still large.

Globalization, Location and Localization of Manufacturing Employment, and Urban Wages in Mexico
Globalization, Location and Localization of Manufacturing Employment, and Urban Wages in Mexico

Author: Sofía Guillermina Ayala García

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 748

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This study explores urban wage disparities that are derived from the location and localization of manufacturing employment within a context of expanding globalization processes and mechanisms. Indeed, a core objective of the dissertation is to study the role that globalization plays in the contraction or expansion of urban wage disparities that are associated with the location and/or localization patterns of manufacturing activity. Location points to the proximity or accessibility of a metropolitan or urban area where firms (and their workers) are located to domestic and/or to foreign demand markets, and localization refers to the co-location or concentration of firms (and workers) within a same industrial sector in geographic space. The information obtained from the study has important policy implications for the economic development of a country’s urban landscape and fills the gap in our knowledge of how globalization affects urban economies. The case of Mexico is analyzed in this study. Data come primarily from the National Survey of Urban Employment for the years 1992 to 2004 and the National Survey of Occupation and Employment for the years 2005 to 2010, and is supplemented by author-defined data constructs and other external data. Urban wages are estimated following an augmented-Mincerian wage model that accounts for worker, firm, and urban characteristics. The findings reveal that the location of industrial activity matters more than its localization to explain wage disparities across urban areas in Mexico. The moderating influence of globalization appears also to be stronger on the effect of location on urban wages than the effect of localization on urban wages. In addition, results point to a moderating effect in the capacity of industrial agglomerations to generate externalities that is derived from their proximity or accessibility to demand markets; globalization appears to influence this relationship as well. Findings also reveal some gender differences.

Contemporary Mexican Politics
Contemporary Mexican Politics

Author: Emily Edmonds-Poli

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 153812193X

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This comprehensive and engaging text explores contemporary Mexico's political, economic, and social development and examines the most important policy issues facing the country today. Readers will find this widely praised book continues to be the most current and accessible work available on Mexico’s politics and policy.